Door-hanger.



No. 686,766. Patented Nov. I9, |901.

A. ROCHWITE.

DOOR HANGER.

(Application tiled Aug. 11, 1900.)

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AUGUST ROOHVVITE, OF KINGSTON, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR OF ONF-HALF TO W. R.HAMMOND, OF WAUTOMA, VVISOONSIN.

DOOR-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 686,766, dated November19, 1901.

Application filed August 11, 1900. Serial No. 26,622`. (No model.) i

T0 @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUST ROCHWITE, a citizen of the United States,residing at Kingston, in the county of Green Lake and State of`Visconsin, have invented a new and useful Door-Hanger,of which thefollowing is a speciiication.

My invention relates to hangers for sliding doors, and more especiallyto that class of hangers by means of which lthe door may be swung intothe doorway between the jambs, providing a close iit, substantially thesame as with hinged doors.

The object of the invention is to generally improve the construction andoperation of this class of hangers and especially to provide meanswhereby it becomes impossible in sliding the door open for the door tosqueeze and rub against the wall.

With these objects in view my invention consists in the improvedconstruction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter fullydescribed, and afterward speciiically pointed out in the appendedclaims.

In order to enable others skilled in the art to which my invention mostnearly appertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed todescribe its construction and operation, having reference to theaccompanying drawings, forming part hereof, in which- Figure 1 is a Viewin elevation of part of the outside of a barn, showing the upper part ofthe doorway and. a door mounted on hangers constructed in accordancewith my invention, the door being shown open. Fig. 2 is a horizontalsectional view on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1, the central portion beingbroken away to shorten the figure, the door being illustrated in itsopen position. Fig. 3 is a horizontal'section on the same line as Fig.2, similarly broken away in the center, the door being illustrated inits closed position. Fig. 4 is a vertical section on the line 4 4 ofFig. 1 looking in the direction of the arrows, the door being shownclosed in full lines and open in dotted lines. Fig. 5 is a detailperspective view of one of the hangers detached. Fig. G is a detailperspective view of one of the reversible crank-arms. Fig. 7 is a detailperspective View of the overlapped central porv way l1.

tions of the adjustable rods for connecting the frames of the hangersand the crank-arms.

Like numerals of reference indicate the same parts wherever they occurthroughout the various figures of the drawings.

Referring to the drawings by numerals, 10 indicates the side of thebarn, which is provided with a doorway 1l, surmounted by a beam 12, uponthe outer upper edge of which is secured a rail or track 13 to receiverollers 14 of hangers 15, in which are pivotally securedupright rods 16,bent horizontally at 17, extended vertically at 18, and pivotallysecured in brackets 19, attached to the front ace of a beam 20, securedto the door21.

By means of the construction hereinbefore described the door 21 may beswung laterally upon the track 13 and closed into the door- In order tofacilitate this operation, I square the upper ends of the rods 16 andmount upon them crank-arms 22 and 23, the outer ends of which arebifurcated. Between these bifurcated ends rods 211 and 25 arepivotallysecured, said rods being formed of any suitable shape, beingshown as halfround, whereby their inner ends may be overlapped, as shownin Fig. 7, adjusted in length to suit the distance apart at which thehangers must be placed on dilerent-sized doors, and secured in suchadjustments by rings 26 and 27, provided with clamp-screws 28 and 29. Ialso provide rods 30 and 3l, secured to the frame of thehangers andoverlapped and adj ustably jointed at their inner ends in the samemanner as described with relation to rods 24 and 25 and illustrated inFig. 7.

The rods 30 and 3l are secured tothe frames of the hangers by means ofthe same bolts 32 which secure a bracket 33 to the body of the hanger.The crank-arms 22 and 23 are secured upon the square ends of the rods 16at right angles to the horizontal portion 17 of the suspending-rods, asclearly illustrated in Fig. 2. This construction causes the rod 21 tocome into contact with the crank-arm 22 when the door is drawn outwardfrom the doorway preparatory to sliding it to its open position. In thisposition the rod 24.- becomes a stop and prevents the cranked rods 16 1718 from swinging beyond their straight out- TOO wardly-pointed positionsat right angles to the door, as shown in Fig. 2, and avoids thetendency, due to the absence of such stops, of the door continuing toswing around on the cranked rods and coming in contact with the faceofthe wall of the barn or other structure.

It will be noticed that the crank-arms 22 and 23 are reversible, so thatby turning them over they may be applied to doors swinging in theopposite direction from that shown.

In order to throw the weight of the door immediately beneath the track,the body of the hanger is bent inward at 34, so that the weight of thedoor hangs in a line almost directly below its line of suspension.

It will be further noticed by referring to Fig. 3, that due to thebifurcation of the outer ends of the crank-arms 22 and 23, the rod 25will strike against the base of the opening between the bifurcatedendswhen the crankarms have been swung into their position for fallwithin the limit and scope of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent of the UnitedStates, is-

1. The combination with the wall, of abeam secured thereto, a track-railsecured to the outer, upper edge thereof, hangers provided with rollersengaging on said track, the frame of the hangers being bent under thetrack, crank-rods pivotally secured to the bodies of the hangers attheir upper ends, the door provided with brackets in which said crankedrods are pivotally secured at their lower ends, crank-arms secured onsaid rods, and adjustably-connected rods pivotally secured to saidcrank-arms, substantially as described.

2. In a door-hanger, the combination with a track, of carriers movablethereon, the car riers being bent intermediately of their ends to extendbeneath the track, crank-rods pivotally-secured to the lower portions ofsaid carriers and to the door and having squared upper ends, crankar1nsformed with'square openings and removably secured upon the upper ends ofsaid crank-rods, and adjustably-connected rods pivotally connected withthe outer ends of said crank-arms, suhstantially as described.

AUGUST ROOHWITE.

Witnesses:

G. A. JosLEN, AUGUST BUcHHoLz.

